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Stella McCartney CAREs

Your skin. It is one of the first things people notice about your appearance. Your skin is constantly at work insulating, protecting and regulating. In the vast world of cosmetics and skin-care, companies target countless products toward us to reverse this or enhance that for a better complexion. You can get lost in it all if you don’t focus.

I personally want to know what I’m eating and what I’m putting on my body. Why organic food is better we can now figure out for ourselves. But you can absorb up to 60 percent of what you put on your skin.

Stella McCartney is known for many things. Being the daughter of Linda and Paul McCartney is a given, but Stella managed to make a name for herself. Six years ago she launched her label, which now boasts leather-free synthetic suede shoes and slippers in addition to cruelty-free stylish handbags. Now, she’s adding organic skin-care products to the mix.

CARE by Stella McCartney, is available as of this month on Sephora.com. “As a company, we don’t claim to be this militant environmental brand, but we like to think we are a responsible brand. We use recycled paper, and wind power we buy from Ecotricity. You can put yourself in a position where people will say, ‘She’s not doing this or that.’ I’m not by any means perfect. I drive a car. I go on airplanes. But my philosophy’s always been ‘Something ‘s better than nothing.'”

Unfazed by the much different approach of her competition, McCartney sees her venture as the first luxury organic-skin-care range. Using 100 percent organic extracts such as green teas, rooibos and red sorrel in her Radiance & Youth Elixir, McCartney says, “it’s also not particularly geared toward skin types. It’s more to suit your need.”

Apparently, the need is great indeed. Vegans know the benefits of consuming organic produce. Yet, it is affirming and refreshingly comforting to know studies show organically souced ingredients and compounds used in CARE have higher concentrations of antioxidants, essential ammino acids, essential fatty acids, vitaminc C and trace elements compared to what is found in conventionally farmed crops.

McCartney knows what she wants in her products and she certainly knows what is forbidden. She insisted keeping out things routinely used by more mainstream brands. Parabens, formaldehyde, phthalates, synthetic fragrances and petrochemicals which, although there is little to prove the amounts employed in today’s beauty products is dangerous; they likely have cumulative effects linked to asthma, depression, memory loss, cancers and damage to reproductive organs.

“Our tagline is ‘To give your skin everything it needs—and nothing it doesn’t.’ Silicone, for instance—which is in pretty much everything—is there as a texture enhancer, to make things silky, lovely, and smooth. But I don’t see why you need it. It doesn’t make you young, doesn’t plump your skin. Doesn’t do anything for you, so we take it out.”

That’s a philosophy anyone can agree with. It seems that when it comes to skin-care, Stella has it covered.

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antonia symes

Re Stella McCartney’s new cosmetics range,everything is mentioned except Animal Testing. In my view the most important factor, we all know Ms. McCartney’s staunch belief in Animal Rights,following in her Late Mother’s footsteps. No mention has been made about animal testing,I would like to hear about this from Ms McCartney.I was very surprised that she did not venture upon this very sensitive subject,so important to people like myself who care about the welfare of animals,so cruelly abused for the sake of beauty and of course Money. Thanks for reading my comment,most interested in your reply.

Hi Antonia, thank you for your concern on the subject. I would not endorse the products on Supervegan.com if they were tested on animals. Stella McCartney herself has pro-animal rights history, and testing her products on them would be counterproductive of her philosophy. I made the mistake of assuming it would be automatically understood that her skin care line is cruelty-free. To clear things up, here is an overview of the products:

Emma Clare

I am new to the site and am also interested in the Care by Stella McCartney range. Although her philosphy states that the products are not tested on animals it does not state that the ingredients have not been. We all know how may companies claim cruelty free when ingredients are tested but the finished product isn’t.

I have done some research and have not yet been able to determine how the ingredients are processed prior to creating the products. I seriously doubt Stella would accept plant-derived ingredients being tested on animals in any way, neither for her products or otherwise. I encourage you to also do some research and let us know if you discover anything useful.